Art Vs. Art

A profile of ArtsJournal.com, arguably one of the most influential arts news sites online…a nano-publishing venture of Douglas McLennan, a former music critic and arts reporter who lives in Seattle.

“If there is a cloud on the horizon, it is the possibility that more and more publications will decide to sell their material, rather than give it away. The Wall Street Journal, for the most part, already does that, and hence does not really appear on either site…’It’s not particularly in their interest to cut us off,’ Mr. McLennan said. ‘I can be their biggest deliverer of traffic.'” Strategic linking relationships, something I have talked about before…